"personal woes" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing someone's individual struggles or difficulties. Example: Despite her success in her career, Emma's personal woes continued to weigh heavily on her mind.
These personal woes also accompanied other disappointments.
Paradoxically, it may well be his personal woes that are the making of Hollande.
My personal woes notwithstanding, residential real estate in New York is a lucrative investment.
As the late comic Max Wall said, after a litany of personal woes – it's got to be funny, hasn't it?
Previously apolitical students have been drawn by personal woes -- their parents' vanishing 401 k)'s, their fears of the job market.
Mirroring a society more concerned with personal pleasure and personal woes than political movements, contemporary Chinese writing focuses on individual feelings.
One woman stopped the socialist People Before Profit candidate, Richard Boyd Barrett, with a tale of personal woe.
Now, after more than two years of personal woe, he is one of several examples of Jardim and Monaco's ability to foster, or salvage, talent.
Nguyen Minh Phong, an expert on inflation with the Institute of Socioeconomic Development Research who invests in real estate on the side, said his personal woe was that he had 13 brothers and sisters who missed the real estate bubble and now came to him for loans.
If we consider that God is not a separate being, then "When you suffer, your sufferings are God's sufferings, not his external work, not his external penalty, not the fruit of his neglect, but identically his own personal woe.
Critics have accused the prime minister of focusing more on his personal legal woes than on the country's problems.
